Employed to Serve – Fallen Star
Leading lights of British metal, EMPLOYED TO SERVE, have released a new single, the title track from their forthcoming album, ‘Fallen Star.’
“’Fallen Star’ is about enduring the burn-out of someone close to us,” offers Employed To Serve frontwoman Justine Jones. “It can be devastating to look on helplessly as someone you care for continues to fly too close to the sun and not learn from it. Sometimes, you need to just distance yourself and love them from afar. We felt it should be the title track as it thematically centers around the lyrics of the new record. Breaking bad habits and overcoming the challenges life throws our way.”
Justine adds:
“The music video for this song displays the space and isolation felt whilst writing the lyrics for this song. As the title track of the album, we wanted to make the video look as expansive and ethereal as the song.”
We want to fly the flag for heavy metal and the traditions that it holds,” offers guitarist and songwriter Sammy Urwin, “But at the same time we want to play our part in taking things forward.”
Since meeting in their teens on the outskirts of London, vocalist Justine Jones and guitarist / co-vocalist Sammy Urwin have had their sights fixed on the road ahead. At first, it was all about standing with the local scene bands they admired, but before long they were forging a path of their own, lifers with a mission, evolving from the feral mathcore of their early EPs to detonating a full-throttle career high with 2021 album, ‘Conquering’.
And now there’s ‘Fallen Star’, an 11-track tour-de-force that sees the collective EMPLOYED TO SERVE vision refined to an even sharper degree.
Produced and mixed by Lewis Johns, a longstanding presence behind the desk, it features a number of special guests, including Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach on “Whose Side Are You On?” and Svalbard’s Serena Cherry on “Last Laugh”.
‘Fallen Star’, the band’s third album via Spinefarm, is a record of dizzying diversity, yet also one that is utterly uncompromising. Taking a deliberately different path to the cathartic anger of fan favourite release, ‘The Warmth of a Dying Sun’ (2017), ‘Fallen Star’ focuses on positive themes, such as finding inner confidence, sticking fearlessly to beliefs and embracing the power that flows within a tight-knit group.
EMPLOYED TO SERVE UK Headline Tour Dates
w/ Celestial Sanctuary & Burner
APR 21 Wolverhampton @ KK’s Steel Mill
APR 22 Glasgow @ The Cat House
APR 23 Leeds @ The Key Club
APR 24 Cardiff @ Clwb Ifor Bach
APR 25 London @ 02 Academy Islington
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